25 January 2006, 21:31
1115Loading Question
Now that I've got my new Green Mountain Barrel shooting like I want it to. I am ready to start eliminating nuisance wild hogs on my property in Georgia. Using Black Mag3, how long can I leave this rifle loaded without firing it, before I need to either fire it, or remove the load?? Any advice??
26 January 2006, 00:02
conchoThere have been documented Findings from the Cival War time to the 1940's of old muzzleloadres being loaded and still ready to fire ! I use Hodgton Trip 7 3/F and have left loaded from one year to the next for our hunting seasons for Deer , still fire and no damage to barrels .
29 January 2006, 16:10
Don EdwardsIt will depend entirely upon the conditions under which you store your rifle when not hunting. Don't subject it to a lot of extreme changes in temperature and humidity. Keep the hammer down on a bare nipple(if it's a caplock). Basically...try to keep the powder charge "sealed" as much as possible from outside influences and you should be fine for as long as you want.
30 January 2006, 08:11
VersifierIf it's rainy or very humid, I'd shoot it daily. It will only piss you off if you have a hangfire and miss, and at the most 15 minutes to clean it. If it's dry, a month shouldn't make a lot of difference. A pencil eraser between hammer and nipple should keep most of the moisture from the air out of the charge, assuming you have a good tight fit with rb/patch or sabot in the bore.
31 January 2006, 09:19
fairchaseI have left Pyrodex and 777 in my clean rifle for months...no problemo. Although, I live in a desert climate with humidity that avgerages about 20%